718 STRICTURE or THE OS AND CERVIX UTERI. 
cervical passages sponged out three or four times with warm 
water at intervals of a day or so, and subsequently smeared 
with a mixture of Ung. Tapid. Calaminaris and carbolic 
acid. 
Case £.—Also took place during last spring. In this in¬ 
stance the patient was a two-year-old quey with first calf. She 
had been unwell for several days, was off her feed, and occa¬ 
sionally had severe calving pains. The whole uterus and its 
contents were seemingly at times forced into the pelvic cavity, 
and at such times the walls of the vagina became everted. 
On exploration I found the os and cervix uteri firmly con¬ 
tracted, just allowing the introduction of one finger. After 
trying my utmost to distend the hardened stricture, using 
various emollients, and giving the patient twenty-four hours 
“ to think about it,” I operated by incision in exactly the 
same way as already related. 
In this case, however, the calf was of great size, and it re¬ 
quired a tremendous amount of traction to effect a separation 
between the mother and foetus. The calf was alive and did 
well; and the mother, notwithstanding much unavoidable 
laceration, with good nursing and similar treatment to pre¬ 
vious case, came all right. 
Case 3.—Took place in May last, the subject being a two- 
year-old quey with first calf. This differed from the last two 
in being a case of what I have called soft stricture ; calving 
pains had been observed occasionally for five days previously 
to my seeing the quey. The pains were at times so severe as 
to bring the os uteri into sight externally ; it presented a very 
inflamed appearance, was extremely ragged in outline; and 
to my mind considerable fungous excrescence, so to speak, 
had become developed all round the lips of the same. I don’t 
think the stricture partook in the least of the hardened cha¬ 
racter perceptible in the two previous cases; it was quite soft 
and attended with much inflammatory action and surroundiug 
thickening. 
I operated by incision in this case in precisely a similar 
manner as I did in the other instances, and with much diffi¬ 
culty got away a living calf. The poor mother was so fright¬ 
fully torn with the large size of the foetus, that I advised the 
owner to slaughter her as she was in prime condition; but, as 
she showed every symptoms of being an excellent milker, 
he would not hear of such a thing. I then ordered like 
treatment to that adopted in the other cases; but, as I ex¬ 
pected, the patient became much fevered and very low, and 
had to be slaughtered some ten days after. 
Case 4.—Happened in June, 1871. The patient was an 
